#456: Prof. Glenn McConell – Glucose Uptake During Exercise & Muscle Insulin Sensitivity
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The Acute Effects of Exercise on Insulin Sensitivity
There's acute effects in response to feeding or otherwise of changing glucose and insulin are not pathological in the way of a chronically elevated insulin or glucose is. If you're burning a lot of glycogen you'll tend to increase your insulin sensitivity more yeah so in terms of minimum I guess it depends on the intensity in the duration. You can use about 50% of your muscle glycogen in that one 30 second bout okay which is crazy It would be about the same as it would take if you're doing like a moderate intensityso about 70% of your tarmac that you can hold probably for a trained person who can hold for about two hours or more 2 or three hours.
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